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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

    Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

    implement ability to remote mount a fileset instead of a full filesystem
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

    Protocols - S3: REST API for mms3 commands

    Currently a REST API call to create a new S3 user account is missing, This is needed for several client applications. The AWS REST API and client provides this function which is currently used by a client application... workaround to create user a...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    maximum number of inodes to be increased automatically once threshold 70 or 80 % is reached, instead of waiting until the number of preallocated inodes exceeds the configured MaxNumInodes

    The number of preallocated inodes had reached approximately 90% of the configured MaxNumInodes. To avoid reaching the configured limit, we manually increased the maximum number of inodes to 2.5 million. We would like IBM Storage Scale to generate ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

    The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Make the df command report information on enforced quota rather than on the filesystem itself on AIX

    When quotas are enforced for a fileset, on AIX the informations reported by the df command are based the entire file system wherea son Linux the behaviour is to report informations on the enfored quota. Would it be possible to have the same behavi...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage Scale Container Native Support for migration between host network and CNI

    In the original versions of IBM Storage Scale Container Native there was only host-network support, which was not ideal from the security/performance point of view. New versions of GPFS have added support CNI support. Currently there is no documen...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Provide a changelog for Scale releases

    Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Functionality already exists

    Protocols - NFS rolling update along with Active Directory

    Customer is having NFS being autheticated my MS AD. In this case SMB service needs to be installed and according to documentation, NFS outage is done when upgrading protocol nodes. Customer is requesting non-disruptive NFS protocol nodes upgrade a...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enable mmbackup to Work on Dependent Filesets

    Currently, mmbackup does not support running directly on dependent filesets. This limitation creates operational challenges in environments where independepdent fileset reach upto max limit (3000) . Customers cannot prevent dependent filesets grow...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    The GPFS GUI uses Swagger, which has security vulnerability issues. We request support to disable the Swagger-related pages.

    Some customers have strict requirements regarding security vulnerabilities, so we need to disable it.
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

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